
Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
Examines lifetime earnings by educational attainment, occupation, age, gender, and race/ethnicity; variations in earnings at the same degree level by occupation and in the same occupation by degree level; and top-earning occupations by degree level.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States

Examines current state policies and practices for ensuring accountability and quality control of teacher education programs; proposes a framework for a redesigned system, including common standards across states; and state policy recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Examines the growth of charter school management organizations, characteristics of students served, and use of resources; CMO practices; impact on students, including middle school test scores; and structures and practices linked to positive outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy, Employment and Labor
Evaluates the effectiveness of a quasi-military residential and mentoring program that aims to place high school dropouts in employment, education, or military service and improve outcomes including indicators of health, lifestyle, and delinquency.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Examines issues for implementing standardized observation protocols for teacher evaluations. Makes recommendations based on lessons from preschool, such as the need to show empirical links between teacher performance and student learning and development.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States

Ranks elementary, middle, and high schools -- including public, charter, and private schools -- in the Detroit area by neighborhood, based on reading and math test scores averaged over a three-year period.
August 1970
Geographic Focus:

Education and Literacy, International Development, Women
Presents adolescent girls' views on the value of education and its impact on their lives, their aspirations, and barriers to long-term change as guidance for targeting interventions to improve self-determination and health, social, and economic outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: Global

Analyzes trends in turnover among public school principals in 2001-08 compared with 1987-2001, school-based and personal reasons for the moves, characteristics of their new positions, and the role of school accountability pressures. Examines implications.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Illinois